The canadian magazine of politics, science, art and literature, November 1910-April 1911 . erside of the creek from the mill; and,as the owners do not wish to sell,stratagem is resorted to, with the re-sult that there are incidents that arenot credible but which can be over-looked if the chief motive of tlie bookbe kept well in view. That motive isto depict the love for wild places thatis inherent with those who have beenreared in them and also the humanlove of one dweller in the wild foranother. The love of Gloss and BoyMacTavish Sir. McKishnie has devel-oped in an uncommonly artistic andsati
The canadian magazine of politics, science, art and literature, November 1910-April 1911 . erside of the creek from the mill; and,as the owners do not wish to sell,stratagem is resorted to, with the re-sult that there are incidents that arenot credible but which can be over-looked if the chief motive of tlie bookbe kept well in view. That motive isto depict the love for wild places thatis inherent with those who have beenreared in them and also the humanlove of one dweller in the wild foranother. The love of Gloss and BoyMacTavish Sir. McKishnie has devel-oped in an uncommonly artistic andsatisfactory style. While there are inthe volume some passages tliat withmany readers might leave impressionsof sentimentalLsm and melodrama,there is nothing but womanliness andmanliness in the encounters of thesetwo leading characters. The machina-tions of Colonel Hallihuts menialsare perhaps a little out of key, butone has to take into consideration thelack of social organisation prevailingat that time in that part of the Prov-ince. Gloss is a member of the Mac- 202 THE CANADIAN MAGAZINE. MR. ARCHIE P. MCKISHNIE. Author of Love of the Wild, and Editor of Thk Canadiaji Century Tavish household, being the daughterof a close friend of the family who,just before her death, entrusted thechild to their keeping. This woman,so it is learned towards the close, wasa sister of Colonel HalUbut, and whenthe colonel discovers her relationshipto himself he receives her exuberantly,and the feud over the timber bushis forgotten. The colonel wishes andoffers to send the girl to the oldland to be educated, but she isattached to the wild, attached bybonds that are not easily sever-ed, and so the book closes withthe assurance that Boy and Gloss havehearts that beat in unison and in s3-m-pathy with themselves and their en-vironment. (Toronto: WilliamBriggs. Cloth. $) *^0 writer except the versifierRobert W. Service has been able as yet to give us a convincing im-pression of the Spell of the Yukon
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